Employees are increasingly working on mobile devices, so organizations must safeguard sensitive enterprise data from cyber threats that exploit mobile users, apps and devices. Organizations have deployed mobile device management (MDM) and mobile app management (MAM) solutions to support mobile users, but often mistakenly believe these management tools are sufficient to protect them from cyber threats.
MDM and MAM lack insight into app characteristics, and cannot provide detection or protection against cyber threats and user behaviors. Rather, these management tools are for administration to set baseline management profiles for mobile devices and apps used within an organization. MDM and MAM lack the ability to dynamically react to mobile cybersecurity threats, and provide continuous visibility of device health and trust.
Only MTD, with or without the use of MDM, can detect and block mobile cybersecurity threats from harming an organization.
As organizations and employees are increasingly dependent on mobile devices, these endpoints become key targets for malicious actors.
Gartner states, “The MTD solution market consists of solutions that protect organizations from threats on iOS and Android devices.
Market Description
MTD solutions protect at the device, network and application levels:
(1) Gartner, Inc. “Market Guide for Mobile Threat Defense” by Dionisio Zumerle, John Girard, October 30, 2018.
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“A leader in its field. The application was very easy to deploy and in the short time it was implemented it already paid for itself by alerting us of potential cyber security risks which might have otherwise gone undetected. From users' perspective it works silently in the background with no interference and very low battery usage.”
Senior Program Manager, Digital, in the Government Industry
“Best tool which covers all the security issues addressed for the mobile devices.. overall experience is good. The best part is protection against Phishing , content filtering and VPN”
Lead mobile and devices in the Manufacturing Industry, Infrastructure & Operations
“The product is easy to set up, and it is truly a "set it and forget it" solution. It will alert you if it detects a problem.”
A VP, IT Security Director, Finance, Security & Risk Management
"This was one of the easiest deployments I have ever done. Further, their integration with [Microsoft's] O365 security stack complements perfectly and aligns with some of our other cybersecurity enhancements."
Chief Information Security Officer in the Services Industry, Security & Risk Management
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Systems Analyst in the Finance Industry
“Most of our initial configuration and deployment was handled by the Lookout team. Since then, we've encountered very few issues and, when we have, Lookout's support team has been very responsive. We integrate Lookout with AAD/Intune and the management experience has been painless."
Chief Information Officer in the Healthcare Industry
The size of the individual vendor markers in the IDC MarketScape represents the market share of each individual vendor within the specific market segment being assessed. Positioning on the y-axis reflects the vendor's current capabilities and menu of services and how well aligned the vendor is to customer needs. Positioning on the x-axis, or strategies axis, indicates how well the vendor's future strategy aligns with what customers will require in three to five years.
(1) IDC, Inc. “IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Mobile Threat Management Software 2018–2019 Vendor Assessment” Doc #US45521018, December 2018
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The size of the individual vendor markers in the IDC MarketScape represents the market share of each individual vendor within the specific market segment being assessed. Positioning on the y-axis reflects the vendor's current capabilities and menu of services and how well aligned the vendor is to customer needs. Positioning on the x-axis, or strategies axis, indicates how well the vendor's future strategy aligns with what customers will require in three to five years
(1) IDC, Inc. “IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Mobile App Security Testing 2019 Vendor Assessment — InfoSec Emphasis", Doc #US45459219, September 2019
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Gartner, Market Guide for Mobile Threat Defense, Dionisio Zumerle, John Girard, 30 October 2018
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